Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset are two different way of thinking and learning. Students with Growth Mindsets believe they become smarter if they put in the effort and hard work. They handle tough challenges face on instead of running away from them and giving up. However, students with Fixed Mindsets believe that they can’t get any smarter than they already are. If someone with a fixed mindset comes across a challenge that looks too hard for them to accomplish, they will most likely give up before they even start. Students with a fixed mindset believe that failure is inevitable, so they say to they’re selves “What’s the point in even trying?”. In the article “Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset research” by Carol Dweck, talks about how teachers and parents need to change their technique on how they talk to students about growth mindsets. However in the article “ The Perils of “Growth Mindset Education” by Alfie Kohn believes although growth mindset is important, teachers “would rather convince students that they need to adopt a more positive attitude rather than address the quality of the curriculum (what the students are being taught) or the pedagogy (how their being taught it).” I agree with both of beliefs of each articles. However, I agree most with Carol Dweck that parents need to change their technique when talking to students about growth mindsets. In Kohn’s article, he talks about how “students have to cram forgettable facts into short term memory. As a student myself, I will cram multiple facts and definitions into my brain just to get a good grade on a test. As soon as the test is over with, I forget most of the information that I was forced to learn just for the test rather than having all the information sink in my brain and become meaningful. I agree with Kohn that the curriculum needs to change and be more meaning to students instead of being “defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests”. Although I agree with a lot of what Kohn says in his article I think teacher need to change the way they teach growth mindset to students. Dweck says “Praising on effort alone is useless when the child is getting everything wrong. When I was younger I had few teachers who just as long as you attempted you would get a decent score on the test. I don’t think this is a good way to teach grown mindset to students because the student is still getting the questions wrong and isn’t improving if the teachers don’t show you why you’re getting them wrong and solely praising on their efforts. In conclusion, I agree mostly with Carol Dweck that teachers need to change their technique when talking about growth mindsets. Although Kohn makes a good point that the curriculum needs to be more meaningful instead of cramming useless information just to get higher scores on tests, if students are not being taught a better growth mindset they won’t be able to do well on tests anyway. Growth mindset is very important for a student to be able to learn the right way.